Tag: embers

• EMBERS

  

  Specks of dancing light floated through the dark sky, borne from the dying fire. There was no more firewood in the barren mountain landscape. It would not take long for the cold to achieve its conquest. Phillips had no choice but to move, to stay in the same place was to die. How much more…

  Iain Kelly

  12/03/2018

  creative writing, Fiction, Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers, Short Story

  agent, aging, britain, cat and mouse, chase, cold war, creative writing, embers, face off, Fiction, fire, Flash Fiction, Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers, game, literature, MI6, mountain, noir, phillips, rivalry, Russia, secret, service, Short Story, SIS, spy, story, tracking, vendetta, wildrerness, Writing, writing prompt

• THE DYING LIGHT

  My life gathered round. Eve, the passionate glowing flames, lightening the dark. Martha and Olivia, flickering young embers floating playfully. Mother and father, wisps of smoke dissipating. The campfire warmth fades. A life that burned brightly ends. The cold shadow of night envelops. Farewell, sweet Earth. I drift away. Written for the Scottish Book Trust’s monthly 50-word Fiction…

  Iain Kelly

  10/03/2017

  50 Word Fiction, creative writing, Flash Fiction, poem

  50 Word Fiction, campfire, dark, Death, embers, Fiction, flames, Flash Fiction, life, light, mood piece, poem, prose poem, scottish book trust, Writing, writing prompt